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Favorite films

  • Yi Yi
  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Meetings of Anna
  • The Shawshank Redemption

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  • Tourist Family

    ★★★

  • Stolen

    ★★★½

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    ★★★½

  • Sinners

    ★★★½

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Mulholland Drive

2001

★★★★★ Liked 2

Some people call this the city of dreams,
I think it's the city of illusions.
You have to believe the illusion,
or else you'll go mad.

This is a famous quote from Payal Kapadia's debut, 'All We Imagine As Light', that talks about the essence of being in what is one of the most important film capitals of India. In a way, this resonates with every fibre of David Lynch's portrait of Los Angeles, the most important film destination in…

All We Imagine as Light

2024

★★★★ Liked 15

While other countries are busy ing their promising home grown talents, my country somehow decided to ignore one of the most groundbreaking movies in the history of Indian independent cinema. And if there's anything to say after seeing the opening film selection of this year's IFFI, it's that our country is going downhill in of ing our ionate filmmakers.

Payal Kapadia's critically acclaimed tale about people lost in time follows two malayalee nurses, Prabha and Anu as they traverse…

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Tourist Family

2025

★★★ 1

If you were my boyfriend, you would not have to lie about this matter. Because you've already crossed a sea to meet me.

I mean, excuse me young lady. Anyone would be instantly floored with a line like that.

What debutant Abishan Jeevinth has crafted here is a touching family drama centered around the Dharmadas family, a Sri Lankan Tamil speaking family of four who had to leave their home in the midst of the economic turmoil and found their…

Stolen

2023

★★★½ Liked 3

गौतम - तूझे करनी हे हेल्प?
रमन - किसी को तो करनी पड़ेगी.
गौतम - रमन प्रैक्टिकल ही सोचो.
रमन - अरे नहीं हूं में तेरी तरह प्रैक्टिकल! कभी ना कभी किसि चीज़ केलिये खड़ा होना पड़ता है. समज इस बात को!

Fists before facts. Paperwork before action.
Unverified Whatsapp news before official reports,
And unchecked social justice goons above the law.

Karan Tejpal's directional debut follows the kidnapping of a toddler from an impoverished woman, Jhumpa, at a railway…

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Sinners

2025

★★★½ Liked 6

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Jurassic World Dominion

2022

★½ 2

People waited almost three decades for a feathered dinosaur, only to get a Giganotosaurus fighting Freddie Krueger in the end.

For the first time in the Jurassic Park franchise, Colin Trevorrow pushes boundaries yet again by making the dinosaurs a subplot for a far more dangerous element jeopardizing the existence of human beings, locusts and a Bill Gates antagonist. The story finally catches up on the Biosyn storyline, something that was hinted at in the first movie back in 1993,…